Jeannette Rankin War Quotations

As a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they were committed to the task, even if it meant going to jail.

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

There can be no compromise with war.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.